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An Event
Oak Hall
Spring Clothing.


through faulty quality, their first high reputation;
honest as wheat Tor more than two generations (he
mills passing meanwhile from father to sons) their
good standing has known setback good now as
rvcr-better improved machinery, improved methods
have helped to make them better
Your orefahers wore them; boy and man
wanting goods to wear sturdily Yankee probity
got Harris Cashmere
Now then by close bargaining, anda less profit than
we deserve, we have Harris goods at price make
a noise over.
Pantaloons at S. 90.
ChiIdren's Suits at 5000, $3.50, $500 Nhree
styes
We could ticket "bargain' all over them.
They'll stand head of the market; hold front rank
among fine goods offered for the money royal for
wear--or looks.
Ask the elderly folks what Harris Cashmere is
ike.
Send for packet of samples.
Wanamaker & Brown,
Sixth and Market Streets,
Philadel pha.
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This is for information, too,
besides advantage.
A little history will brighten
our. business side to you.
Edward Harris was pioneer
of Cashmere makers in the
United States ; his race has
multiplied.
The goods have never lost,
by a single piece or day,
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The Indian Chemical Co., have discovered
a compound which acts with truly marvel
our rapdity in the cure of rheumatism and
Neuralgia. We guarantee it To cure any
and every case at acute lntlammatory
rheumatism and Neuralgia in , days, aud
to give immediate relief in chronic eases
and effect a speedy cure.
On receipt of 30 cents in two cent stamps
we will send to any address the prescription
to- this wonderful compound, which can
be filled by your home dru ggist at small
cost. We take this means of giving our
discovery to the public instead of putting
it out as patent medicine, it being much
less expensive. We will gladly refuI d
money if satisfaction is not given.
THE INDIANA CHEMICAL Co.,
Jan 29-ly Charlottesville, Ind.
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WHOLE No. 2,3O1

pie off from the streets and to teach them
useful occupations. workingmen's ill.,
sttute could include also what is found
in the very successful Workingmen's Col
lege in London, started thirty years ago
by Rev. Frederick Denison Maurice, in
which laborers have received instruction
from men like Ruskin, Sylvester. Seeley,
Sheldon, Amos, Thomas Hughes and Sir
John Lubbock, not designed to lift them
out OF the laboring class, but to render
their lot in that class a more enviable
one. In building for such al ustitu-
ton provision should by all means be
made for halls for all kinds of working
mems societies and for their political
gatherings, that they might not find it
necessary to meet in liquor saloons.
Reading-rooms and other places for the
gathering of men when not at work ought
to be another feature. This one measure
would do great deal to promote temper
ance. 1t would also be compliment to
tho benefactons OF Johns Hopkins and
N~aOSh Lew, anu "ouiI ICip W plplllpGc
that good feeling among all classes which
exits already to far greater extent in Bal
timore than any other large American
city. This idea was in part suggested to
me by the late Rev. DR.. Leeds, rector of
Grace Church, of this city. In letter
dated March =, 1855, he said this among
other things There is a fault in the
church in not elevating as she ought
and as she has in her power to do-the
so-called laboring classes, and in promot
ing among all ranks in life feeling of
brotherhood. 1t is not through
worship alone that we shall reach them:
but even mere, believe, by the provis-
ion of places of innocent pastime and
social intercourse among themselves, free
from the dangers of alluring saloons, aud
yet antidotes to the gloom of unattrac-
tive homes in crowded lanes and alleys.
Out of them they will pass, under the
ehurch's encouragement, into her places
of prayer of their own choice and mo-
ton. RICHARD L. Ely
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of either sex, however induced, promptly,
thoroughly and permanently cured. Send
10 cents in stamps for large illustrative
treatise. Worlds Dispeusary MediCa As
ISOLATION, Sos Main Street Buffalo, y. \.
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There's no terror headache, in your threats.
For am armed SO strong with remedy
That pass pain by, as an idle word
Which l respect not since the discovery of Sa!-
walton Oil. Twenty-Five cents a bottle.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1887-09-15
CONTEMPT of Court
San Francisco Chronicle: The old
Judge looked at him.

San Francisco Chronicle; The old
Judge looked at him.
IL think | see you Before, nO?'
The culprit admitted that he had been
there on several occasions.
.'Vel, l ioost sentence you to forty
lashes. You take twenty of them to-
morrow. and then you vas released on
your own recognizance, and you come
back in week and take the other
twenty"
The fellow had twenty lashes and he
hasn't been seen in Tucson since.
Another little example of the Judges
way of doing things was the case of a
man brought up before him for firing
off pistol in the street or something.
They had taken $40 from him when
he was arrested.
Il joost fine you 5000" said the
Judge.
why" said the prisoner, .'in san
Francisco they would only fine me IS
or S10.n
You vas in Tucson, mein friend f;
5000"
The man was complaining bitterly
after he paid the fine.
Don't kick said another. You
were lucky. If he'd known YOU had
$40 on you he'd have fined you all of
it,"
Some fellow who was being tried
moved for change of venue.
You want a change of venue?
What for?' asked the Judge.
because this court is prejudiced
against me and | won't get fair trial. -
"You say this court is prejudiced
againstyoT and you won'tget a fair trial.
You want a change of venue, mein
friend? l joost fine You $500 for con-
tempt of court to begin with. Now,
Wen proceed with the trial.
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Cnnrtshin and Marriage.

Every young lady has a right to know
why young man solicits her company.
Her life is too valuable to be trified with
for mere pleasure. But young ladies
ike company. They can make it a
pleasure or curse. Courtship, il
properly engaged in, is only an intro
duction to the happiness that will
follow. Find one that will love you,
not only through courtship, but through
iovs and sorrows. success and adversely
one that will be a helpmate through
life. Acquaintance Is one of the inn
portant elements of courtship.
Too many young ladies have COM
mitted suicide and died broken-hearted
because they did not gain a knowledge
Of their lovers character before bestow-
inc their affections on them. Have
both ewes open. Court in the daytime
and not in the dark. Young man. 60
around in the daytime and see what
vour sweetheart is doing when she does
not expect you. Get a knowledge OF
her traits of character and domestic
life. Young lady. be careful Of your
choice. See to it that polished address
does not cover many vices. Don't 90
blindfolded on this voyage of married
life. but intelligently and wisely on
both sides With such a choice true
happiness is sure to follow.
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Piso's Remedy for Catarrh Is agreeable
TO use. 1t 10 not liquid or a snuff. SOC.
Giants of The Past.

An opinion was current in the last
century, says writer in Popular
Science, that our ancestors, at some
time in the past, We're the equal or SUI
periors in size to the largest men now
to be found. NJ. Henrion presented to
the Academic DIES Inscriptions, in 1718,
a memoir on the variation in the size
of man from the beginning of the
world till the Christian era, in which
Adam was given 123 feet 81 inches.
But after the first pair, the human race.
in his Imagination, suffered a regular
decrease, so that Noah was only 100
feet high, while Abraham shrank down
to % feet, Moses to ID feet. the mighty
Hercules to 10 feet 81 inches and Alex
ander the Great to bare 81 feet. The
communication, it is said, was received
with enthusiasm, and was regarded at
the time rs a wonderful discovery
and sublime vision"
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1887-09-15
Horrors of solitary Confinement

Passanante, the Neapolitan cook who
attempted to assasinate King Humbert
and dangerously wounded Prime Minis
ter Carroll some five or six years ago, is
now lying at the point of death Con
demned TO imprisonment for life he was
incarcerated in a large circular cell
in the PortOferraio convict prison
on the Island of Elba. The walls,
of the dungeon are perfectly white,
with nothing on which TO rest
the eye, daylight being admitted
through a small skylight in the domed
ceiling. Condemned TO solitary con-
finement, with no books or work to
help him pass away the long, dreary
hours, the man soon became a hopeless
imbecile. His appearance is horrible.
Want of exercise has produced obesity
almost resembling elephantiasis, and
the rolling ewes, the shaven head and
face. and yellow, greazy-looking skin
conduce to make him utterly repulsive
to the sight.
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AIexandra's Kindness of Heart

OF the Princess of Wales, who, if she
lives, win some day be Queen and En-
press of Britannia's domains. charm
ing story is just added to the many
humane acts for which she is noted. A
little while ago she visited the Millbank
female prison. and was shown over the
place by the chaplain. In one of the
cells was woman who was SO violent
that it had been found necessary to
handcuff her. Her Royal Highness
spoke kindly and tenderly to the woman
demonstrated with her as to her con-
duct and completely broke down her
sullenness. The refractory woman burst
into tears, and on the Princess asking
her to promise that if the handouts
were removed she would not be violent,
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Catching Snakes for Fun.

The Townsville, Ga, Enterprise
saws that while little j. ID. O'Hearn
was strolling down near the branch
Just north of the city he discovered a
large snake under log. He ut once
tried to capture the snake but it
escaped just then he saw two more.
and grabbed one of them back of the
neck and the. drew its tail up and
held it in the same hand and proceeded
to catch the other with the other hand.
In doing this he got bit on the hand,
and deliberately stopped and sucked
the poison from the wound, and then
captured the snake as at first at
tempted. Getting this snakes head
and tail in one hand just as he had the
other. he returned home. stopping
several times on the way to show
several parties he met how he could
make the snakes fight by putting their
heads together. After playing with
them as long As he wanted to, he took
them home and put them in "A box.
Mr.. Fudge. his brother-in-law. having
found out about them. had the snakes
killed y. d." as the boy is COM
monty called. is about IA years old.
! The bite of the snake, although it was
a poisonous moccaSin. never even made
a sore. He says he is not afraid of
snakes. and catches them just for fun.
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Courage of Women.

In courage the ordinary woman,
says the Augusta Gazette, greatly out
strips the ordinary man. Whether il
be reckless, unconscious, or sublime,
the element of personal courage that
affects a fit at the intrusion of a mouse
knows 40 fear in the face of real dan
ger. A lady who would not venture
from her rural front door alone was
often met abroad leading a 3-year-old
child by the hand. When asked if she
considered the infants presence a pro-
lection, she answered: 'In measure
yes; for when am alone l feel that
have no right to be away, and would
run from a shadow, but if | were at
tackled with this child | would defend il
to the last Some persons will ac
count for this on maternal instincts
But the lady was not related to tn,
child and she was unmarried.
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Consumption

Prof. Ruhle of Bonn, in a recent pa
per on consumption of the lungs,
states that in his opinion the most fre-
quent manner OF contracting this mala-
dy is from diseased person through
the sputa, also through the glands, ex-
foliations from the sAin, OF any way in
which the poison may appear on the
surface and be transplanted By means
of pocket handkerehiefs, washing, etc.
The fact that attendants in hospitals
who have the care of cOnsumptives are
seldom attacked with the disease, con-
WINGED the writer that it is not the air
through which the germs are carried.
but it is communicated in another
mode; in fact, the way in which the
members of the family kiss and fondle
the patient and handle his linen. From
one member of the family the special
germ which excites the disease goes to
another. Instances can frequently be
found, on inquiry. where the parents
transmit the disease to their children;
in such cases. the family physician
should put in his word of warning.
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are two in this city. The editors of the
sun, Tribune and Times are often to be
seen at famous old restaurant opposite
the PostOffice in Printing House Square.
Henry George uncovers his bald head
in French restaurant in Fulton street.
where an Irish stew Is called a ragout
de mouton, and Roscoe Conkling is
fond of diving down an old lane called
Thames street and eating in dining
room that has not altered a lot or title
since it was opened next door to the
Sign OF the Crooked Stoop by gentle
man in smalls, silk stockings and huge
silver shoe-buckles a little more than
eighty-seven years ago. The bill of fare
is distributed on some white eartlen-
ware plates on a table at the open street
door in the shape of raw steaks, outlets
and kidneys and uncooked vegetables.
The great lawyer looks the larder over.
sits down at a pine kitchen table on q
painted chair and waits while his meal
is cooked.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1887-09-15
what To Teach Your Boys.

Teach them how to earn money.
Teach them how to be strictly truth
full.
Teach them shorthand and typewrite.
ing.
Teach them economy in all their af-
fairs
Teach them to be polite in their man,
nerS.
Teach them history and political
economy.
Teach them arithmetic in all its
branches.
Teach them to avoid tobacco and
strong drink.
Teach them to ride, drive, jump, run
and swim.
Teach them careful and correct bust
ness habits.
Teach them how to get the most fol
their money.
Teach them, by example, how to dc
things well.
Teach them to avoid profane and in
decent language.
Teach them habits of cleanliness and
good order.
Teach them the care of horses, wag-
ons and tools.
Teach them to be manly, self-reliant
and aggressive.
Teach them to be neat and genteel in
their appearance.
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Food AduIteratfOn.

Some writers seem to feel that it is
useless to agitate the subject of food
adulteratioG, conveying the idea in their
discussions that the foreign substances
used are in no way injurious to health.
A physician who has studied 1.-THE small
economies of life tells how the jellies
which some bakers put into their tarts
and Jelly cakes are made. No wonder
grocers can sell them so cheaply. The
directions are as follows: Take four
quarts of water and a half pound of
alum; boil two minutes; add 30 pounds
of white sugar; boil five minutes longer;
strain while it is warm (and the hotter
it is the easier) through coarse towel;
when nearly cold, add two ounces of
acetic acid, and one-half a pound of
real currant jelly. When cool pack it
i'm tumblers and label with a picture of
"a currant bush and a child picking cur
rants. If you desire vanilla jelly,
add in place of the currant jam four %
cent bottles of the extract of vanilla,
and stir in when nearly cold. If you
desire strawberry jam, prepare the
alum and sugar as before, and add half
a pint of the essence of strawberry; or,
if lemon is desired, add essence of
lemon. You can make what you like
with these proportions of alum and
sugar. This is the way to make the
grocers jelly and the jam that is placed
on tarts in the confectioneries and the
bakeries.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1887-09-15

One of the clerks in the Fourth Au-
ditors's Office of Treasury Department
Is lovely Southern girl whose home is
in Central Alabama. Abou. four years
ago the young lady secured a clerkship
in the Treasury Department at a salary
sufficient for the maintenance of her
widowed mother and herself. A few
weeks ago she received letter from
a banking house in Birmingham, Ala,
asking the lowest cash price at which
her mother would sell farm Of one
hundred acres several miles distant
from the city. The farm had hitherto
been regarded a worthless and her
mother had made repeated efforts to
sell il for even a few hundred dollars.
The young treasury clerk is as sagaci-
Gus as she is pretty and before replying
10 the letter took counsel with friend
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1887-09-15
Occupied Women

The number of women employed in
definite occupations in England and
Wales was at the census of 1881 3,403.-
9lS. OF these 1.5S9,739 were employ
ed in various industries, constituting Il
little over one-fourth of the industrial
population; Ga. $40 were engaged in
agriculture and $40, 1902 were domestic
servants. "A Woman" writing on this
subject i'm the Pail Mall Gazette SAYS:
domestic service is a perfectly woman
~ occupation, because it implies that
complete surrender of liberty and that
subordination to another's will which
are the brightest Jewels of the female
crown, but even here woman's inferior
ity is duly marked by lower wages. the
butler being more highly paid than
the housekeeper, the valet than
the lady's maid, the chief than the
why the word has not even a feminine
we are obliged to say the female
cook. The remaining women who are
paid for their work are employed in
teaching. nursing, laundry and other
minor occupations. Outside these are
4, 45S, 90S women who are unoccupied
that is, unpaid-and of whom the
census report says that they are mostly
married and employed in domestic and
other work. As these do not render
service for pecuniary remuneration we
are not here concerned with them, save
to note that the women who gain their
own livelihood number but one million
less than their so-called more fortunate
sisters -
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Toby was a black female cat. with a
white spot under her chin. She always
went with my father to his Office re-
turning home when she had seen him
safe inside; then waited for him at
the garden gate until his return at din
ner time. During this meal and supper
she would sit on his knee, and he
would now and then notice her by pat
ting and calling her "Old Girl" This
went on for some years. when my
father was seized with the ILL
ness of which he died. During the i'll
ness the cat showed great unedsi-
ness. making distressing noises,
so that it was necessary to debar her
the house. My father died and was
removed in his coffin down stairs. The
following morning the cat was found
sleeping on the lid of the coffin. The
eat followed the corpse to the gray, a
distance of quarter of a mile, after
which the animal was missed. The
next day member of the family, who
went to put flowers on the grave,
found poor pussy stretched there, evil
IDENTIFY starving. Food was taken to
her. as she resisted all attempts to make
her return home; but it was impossible
to save her life, and she was found one
day quite dead on her masters grave.
-ChdtferbOr
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Il PHYSICIANS
| FAILED.

Tie treatment of many thousands of cases
of those chronic weaknesses and distressing
ailments peculiar to females. at the lnvaiids'
Hotel end Surgical Institute. Buffalo, y. Y,
has afforded a vast experience in nicely
adapting and thoroughly testing remedies
for the cure of wOman's peculiar maladies.
DIR. Pierce's FaVOrite Prescription
is the outgrowth. or result, of this great
and valuable experience. Thousands Of
testimonials. received from patien.s and
from physicians who have tested il in the
more aggravated and obstinate cases which
had baffied their skill, prove it TO be the
most wonderful remedy ever devised for
the relief and cure of suffering women II
is not recommended as a cIIre-all." but
as a most perfect Specific for woman's
peculiar ailments
As a powerful, invigOrating tonic,
il imparts strength to the whole system,
and to the uterus, or womb and its ap-
pendages, in particular. For oveTworked.
WORKOUT" rundown" debilitated teach
ers. milliners. dressmakers, seamstresses,
- shop-girls-' housekeepers, nursing moth
ers. and feeble women generally, DIR.
Pierce's Favorite Prescription is the great
est earthly boon, being unequalled as an
appetizing cordial and restorative tonic. II
promotes digestion and assimilation of food,
Address, WORLDS DISPI
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THE FIREFLIES DANCE.

By the rivers grassy margin, -
SiIvared in the ul0Onbeam light,
In the pleasant month OF rosesi
Saw once a wOndrCus sight
Fitting DER the meadow grasses,
Ger the q aisies slim aud tall,
Fairy dancers lightly whirling,
Gathered for the firefiies' ball
All were rObed in gauzy garments
By the busy spider sewed;
While for ornament, dewdrOp
On each tiny girdle glOwed.
Grand the ball room Nature furnished,
Rooted by azure, Lit by stars,
CaTpeted by rar6st velvet,
Hung with twilight's purple bars
Water-illies, pure and stately,
Swung their perfumed censers near,
And sweet strains Of wOndrOus music
Fell upon my listening ear.
Music Of the woods and marshes;
Pipe Of frogs clear and shrill,
Ripple soft Of lapsing waters,
Chirp Of crickets on the hill.
As gszed in specifies wonder,
Ceased the merry music shTill,
Ceased the dancers airy motion;
Silence reigned Ger vale and hill
But a moment then the crickets
RECOMMENDED their joyous song,
And till Day flung out her banners
Danced the firefiies all night long.
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I'm pregnancy, &" Favorite Prescription :"
is a "mOtherr cordial relieving nausea,
weakness Of stomach and other distressing
SYMPTOMS common TO that condition. II
its use is kept up in the latter months Of
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almost entirely do away with the sufeTlngs
Of that trying ordeal
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in COZ nection with the use Of DR.. Pierce's
Colder Medical Discovery, and small lsXa-
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1Ettle Liver Pills, cures Liver, Kidney and
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system.
s.EaVOrite Prescription - Is the only
medicine for women sold, by druggists,
under a positive guarantee, from the
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$500.
20 Send ten cents in stamps for DR..
Pierce's large. illustrated Treatise (160
pagesl on DISEASES of Women.
. 663 Main street, BUFFALO, n. Il.